30.4483, Calls: Pragmatics/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-4483. Tue Nov 26 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.4483, Calls: Pragmatics/Spain

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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:19:12
From: MANUEL PADILLA CRUZ [mpadillacruz at us.es]
Subject: Wither relevance-theoretic pragmatics?

 
Full Title: Wither relevance-theoretic pragmatics? 
Short Title: WRTP 

Date: 06-May-2020 - 08-May-2020
Location: Seville, Spain 
Contact Person: Manuel Padilla Cruz
Meeting Email: mpadillacruz at us.es

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2019 

Meeting Description:

WHITHER RELEVANCE-THEORETIC PRAGMATICS?
Panel proposal for the EPICS IX International Conference
(6-8 May 2020, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain)

Ever since relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1986/1995; Wilson and Sperber
2004) was first put forth more than thirty years ago, practitioners working in
this cognitive pragmatic framework have applied it to shed light on an immense
variety of linguistic elements and communicative phenomena. Their works
heavily rely on both the communicative and the cognitive principles of
relevance, as well as the model of comprehension that relevance-theoretic
pragmatics has depicted over the years as a mindreading exercise that triggers
an incredibly complex and fast process of mutual parallel adjustment of
explicit and implicit content (Carston 2002). 
Over the years, research done through the lens of Sperber and Wilson’s
framework has continued both vibrantly and enthusiastically, as attested by
the many conferences and conference panels devoted to relevance theory and the
numerous insightful analyses made on the basis of its tenets. Yet, many issues
still remain unanalysed, need to be revisited or deserve further consideration
on the basis of subsequent developments. There is still much work to be done
and many research paths worth exploring certainly lie ahead.

This panel seeks to bring together papers making new proposals from a
relevance-theoretic perspective, revisiting claims made within Sperber and
Wilson’s framework, applying its postulates to analyses of different
linguistic and communicative phenomena, pointing out challenges to be faced or
suggesting new directions for further research. Moreover, this panel intends
to pay a tribute of gratitude and acknowledgement to Professor Deirdre Wilson
–undoubtedly, one of the key figures in the development of relevance theory
and one of its co-founders– who has accepted our invitation to be guest of
honour and speaker at the panel. 


Call for Papers:

Researchers interested in contributing a paper should submit the information
below by email to the panel convenors, Agnieszka Piskorska
(a.piskorska at uw.edu.pl) and Manuel Padilla Cruz (mpadillacruz at us.es):

- A Word/pdf file containing an anonymised one-page abstract no longer than
350 words (including references). The file must be named “Abstract_Surname”.
- A Word/pdf file, named “Data_Surname”, containing the following information:
- Author’s/Authors’ name(s) and affiliation(s)
- Title of paper
- Topic(s) addressed (from among those in the list of topics above)
- Up to five keywords
- Audio-visual equipment required (computer, video, etc.)
- E-mail address(es)
- Postal address(es)
- If the paper or poster cannot be presented on a particular day of the
conference.

The deadline for submission of proposals is 15 December 2019. 

Thank you for your attention and feel free to circulate this CfPs to any
researcher in your network with an interest in relevance-theoretic pragmatics.




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